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by dctoedt 1y ago
>> According to Archbishop Diego Ravelli, Master of Apostolic Ceremonies, the late Pope Francis had requested that the funeral rites be simplified and focused on expressing the faith of the Church in the Risen Body of Christ. As a kin
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It'd be potentially defamatory before a conviction, so British non-tabloid press is likely to be super-cautious
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Seems like it was just headlinese, plus being super-cautious about defamation before a conviction — especially in the UK, where libel law is more pro-plaintiff that in the U.S.. FTA itself: "... Her partner had allegedly used his key
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by dctoedt 2y ago
> the long bus rides back and forth to the site Did you live in IF or Pokey? For some reason an image of my small green bus pillow came to mind. I wonder what happened to it.
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> The immutability of God is a necessary theological conclusion. If God changes, then He isn't God, by definition. It would be a metaphysical absurdity. Is that so? Just because some people can't conceive of a mutable God, it
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by dctoedt 2y ago
> Catholicism teaches that Divine Revelation is God's Self-Revelation and therefore can't change because God can't change. The "God can't change" part seems a bit above our paygrade, no? Not to mention: Wh
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iMemories TOS: We're free to use your videos, photos, etc., that we process(imemories.com)
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by dctoedt 2y ago
1. iMemories is a service that will digitize your old videotapes, photos, etc., and will keep them online as long as you're a subscriber. I used them some years ago and have kept the subscription active for convenient on-line access. 2
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by dctoedt 2y ago
1. iMemories is a service that will digitize your old videotapes, photos, etc., and will keep them online as long as you're a subscriber. I used them some years ago and have kept the subscription active for convenient on-line access. 2
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>> The two major political parties fundamentally realigned during the civil rights era of the 1960s. > This is an incorrect analysis looking at the wrong causal factor (civil rights rather than economics). Boy, is THAT ever a contr
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> If big companies are allowed to pirate content to train their models, so do I. The syntax brought to mind Stephen Colbert's 2007 book, I Am America (And So Can You!)
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> she apparently broke an explicit regulation What I read was that it was a paperwork oversight — it wasn't that she wasn't allowed to bring the materials into the country, it was that she didn't check some kind of box o
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> And he [Dan Quayle] passed the bar the first try, unlike [Kamala] Harris. Harris took the California bar exam. It's notoriously difficult. AFAICT, Quayle took the Indiana bar exam.
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> failed apocalypse cult See also the additional New Testament citations I compiled in "Is Jesus Coming Again? The Predictors' Track Record Doesn't Inspire Confidence" [0] (Some of the comments there are mildly amus
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The question "how long is your shaft" also has a more, um, personal answer ....
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> He doesn't like the architecture you chose? You're gone. He finds issues in the code of one of your subordinates? That subordinate is gone and you are too. I doubt it would have been that severe unless it was a recurring th
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> I must not be hip to the joke. What's the fourth thing? Kindly. Old. Gentle. Man.
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> I don't know how many people on HN have served and heard of Rickover? But I'm pretty sure most people on HN could not function in a Rickover style management context. It gets things done, but it's not terribly polite ab
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by dctoedt 2y ago
Some great stories about Dirac's "unusual" personality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac#Personality One of my favorite theologians, physicist-turned-Anglican-priest Dr. John Polkinghorne FRS, di
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by dctoedt 2y ago
(Inactive) patent litigator here (been doing other things for some years now): IPRs are way better than jury trials for determining patentability.
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See Blue Jeans Cable's classic response to a patent cease-and-desist letter from Monster Cables: The Blue Jeans Cable CEO was a former litigator who pulled no punches in his response. [0] [0] See https://www.oncontracts.co
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The notion of "individual generosity" presupposes that each individual is morally entitled to dispose, as the individual sees fit, of the assets that the individual happens to control, whether in consequence of the individual&#x27
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> In my view, the best expression of America is somewhere like Iowa--a flat society with intense, local self-governance. You sound very Jeffersonian, but methinks you're idealizing Iowa — have you ever spent time there? Anecdata:
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Forest ... trees .... (And you think Korea was a mistake? Seriously? )
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> I don’t want the U.S. to bear the cost (in money and lives) of a war that doesn’t directly relate to protecting the american homeland. I think U.S. foreign policy has been a failure since the 1950s—we shouldn’t have gone to war in Kor
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When Germany reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936, British and French forces could easily have rolled to Berlin and deposed Hitler. They didn't, for domestic political reasons that were no less catastrophic for being understandable (war-
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> both Starmer and Macron represent a minority of the electorate in their respective countries—having won due to a deeply fractured electorate. Yet MAGA types keep claiming that Donald Trump supposedly got an "overwhelming mandate
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> In your construction, all the work is being done by your use of the word “available.” In your construction, all the work is being done by "the." OK, let's play the same game, this time with the word executive : Sup
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> Does anyone think Congress can create a law that enables the legislative or judicial powers to be exercised by employees independent of the control of the constitutional actors in which those powers are vested? Yes. Apart from the sp
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> I honestly don't think there's anything Trump could do to lose the support of his MAGA base. We have ample precedent: Germany in 1945.

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